Improvement in shirt-collars



JNTTED STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON S. GRAY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT 1N SHIRT-COLLARS.

v Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,961, dated June 23, 1863.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, SOLOMON S. GRAY, of Boston, in the county ot' Suolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Turn-Over Shirt-Collars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a plan of a collar before it is turned over 5 and Fig. 2 is a perspective view .of the same turned over and brought into a circular form, as on a persons neck.

Like parts are indicated by the same letters in both of the drawings.

A great defect in turnover collars, (especially collars made of paper, or cloth and paper united,) has been the wrinkling or puckering of the inner part when brought into a circular form, as on a persons neck, occasioned by the inner part, ot' necessity, occupying a smaller circle than the outer one.

The nature of my Vimprovement therefore consists in so constructing a'turn-over collar as to do away the above-described effect; and this object I accomplish by turning the collar over on a curved line, instead ot' a straight line, y, so that the corners b b of the turnover part B, will striket-he points x m', insttad of y y', as they would it' the collar were turned over on the straight line y, by whichit is evident that the longer space from y to y-i. c.,

from b to b-has only to cover the shorter space v from to fr on the part A forming the inner circle, and thus the inner circle will not be wrinkled or puckered by the tension of the outer one.

To enable others skilled in the. art to make and use my improvement, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I do not confine myselfto any particular style of turn-over collar, nor to any particular material, though I consider my improvement as being more particularly applicable to paper, or cloth and paper combined.

Fig. 1 represents a collar before being turned over,d, e, and f being button-holes, punched in the usual manner.

Hitherto collars have been turned over in the straight line y, (represented by the dotted line in Fig. 1,) and the practical objection to all such collars has been described above. The line. w, however, as will be seen by inspecting Fig. l, isa curve or the are of a circle, and on this line the part B is turned over onto the part'A. The best mode of doing this is to make in the collar an impression of the curve or line on which it is to be turned over, either by means of a die pressed upon it, or by drawing a pointed instrument over it beside a pattern. When this is done, the collar can be readily turned over, following the -indented line; or the collar may be-turned over the edge of a pattern or block of the proper curve or line. Theline m, however, instead of being a curve, or the arc of a circle, might be composed of straight lines, with an angle at the centerof the collar, and accom` plish the object desired about as well. I prefer, however, to makeit, w, the exact arc of a circle.

The drawings are as large as a mediumsized collar, and the greatest distance from the straight line y to the curved line a: is about one-fourth of an inch. lt may, however, be a little more or less, and still accomplish the object required.

Collars thus constructed never Wrinkle or pucker, and may even be rolled up into a circleof not more than an inch or so in diameter, as is often convenient for transportation, without the slightest injury.

Having thus described the nature and operation of my improvemnet, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shirt-collar in which the part B is turned over onto the part A in the curved or angular line m, instead of a straight line, in order to prevent the part A from Wrinkling, substantially as described.

SOLOMON S. GRAY.

Witnesses:

N. EVANS, Jr., N. AMES. 

